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Transnational/global history seems to have gained a foothold in scholarship dealing with the late history of the Habsburg Monarchy. In particular, scholars have recently offered new results in Habsburg imperial history and the history of international migration. However, the editors of a new handbook can still rightly claim that compared to other areas in the world, “research into transnationalization has received so far little consideration in East Central Europe” (Frank Hadler and Matthias Middell, Handbuch einer transnationalen Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas [Göttingen, 2017], p.13). The main aim of this exploratory workshop is to overview the state-of-the-field and to identify new fields of research into a global/transnational history of belle époque Austria-Hungary.
PROGRAM
10:00 – 12:15 Panel I
Chair: Dr. Bálint Varga IAS CEU/Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Introduction by Dr. Bálint Varga
Prof. Dr. Matthias Middel, Leipzig University
East Central Europe as a field of global history
Dr. William O’Reilly, University of Cambridge
Globalizing Habsburg history in the 18th century
12:15–14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panel II
Chair: Prof. Dr. Rosemary Wakeman, IAS CEU
Dr. Judit Klement, Hungarian Academy of Sciences/Eötvös Loránd University
The Hungarian economy in Austria-Hungary and within the first globalization
James Callaway, New York University
Austro-Hungarian conceptions of economic interests in eastern markets
15:30–16:00 coffee break
Chair: Prof. Dr. Alfred J. Rieber, CEU
Dr. Susanne Korbel, University of Graz
The globalization of popular culture in Austria-Hungary
Dr. Bálint Varga, IAS CEU/Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The role of migration in the transnationalization of Hungarian society around 1900
Closing discussion